PHP not have a function for XML-safe entity decode? Not have some xml_entity_decode?

Question

THE PROBLEM: I need a XML file \"full encoded\" by UTF8; that is, with no entity representing symbols, all symbols enconded by UTF8, except the only 3 ones that are

Answer 1

Try this function:

function xmlsafe($s,$intoQuotes=1) {
if ($intoQuotes)
     return str_replace(array('&','>','<','"'), array('&','>','<','"'), $s);
else
     return str_replace(array('&','>','<'), array('&','>','<'), html_entity_decode($s));
}

example usage:

echo '';

also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9446666/2312709

this code used in production seem that no problems happened with UTF-8